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BRACKET POR SUPPORTING CURTAIN RODS.

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JOHN JONES, OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.

BRACKET FOR SUPPORTING CURTAIN-RODS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,152, dated June 21, 1898. Application filed May 19, 1897. Serial No. 637,136. (No model.) Patented in England March 23, 1896, No. 6.360.

To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that I, JOHN JONES, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing in Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, England,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brackets for Supporting Curtain-Rods, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain bearing date March 23, 1896, and numbered G,360,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to brackets for supporting curtain-rods, and is more especially applicable to the rods or laths which support shortcurtains which extend across the lower part of the window.. It is found that such curtains when washed shrink very considerably, and as'this diminishes the depth of the curtain it is necessary from time to time to lower the supporting rod or lath and the object of my invention is to provide brackets adapted to besecured to the window and to so carry the rod or lath that the height can be easily adjusted to suit the curtain.

According to my invention I construct such brackets as follows: I take a strip of sheet metal about six or eight inches long and byl giving it at each end two right-angled bends` in opposite directions I form it into a shallow inverted-U-shaped bracket with projecting feet at each end. Vhen this bracket is secured to the window-sash parallel to the vertical sides thereof, its three right-angled sides form, with the window-sash as the fourth side, a slot some four or ve inches long and, say, about one-quarter of an inch wide. This slot is divided by turning in pieces left on the side of the strip or out out of the substance of the strip into, say, four or siX parts, into any of which the lath which supports the curtain just fits.

I have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings, in which` Figure I shows the brackets applied to an ordinary window. Fig. IIis an isometric proj ection of the main bracket. Fig. III is a development of the sheet metal as stamped out to form the main bracket, and Figs. IV and When the rods 4 are long, I provide a ceny tral bracket 7, similar to l, except that the side pieces 2 are turned outwardly. This bracket is placed at the center of the window and supports the rod at the center, as shown in Fig. I. In order that the bracket 7 may accommodateitself to the moldings on the window-frame, the lower foot is adapted to be turned in, as shown in Fig. IV.

In Fig. II the bracket is shown with three recesses, so that the height of the rod may be adjusted. In the case of the lower rod, however, no adjustment is necessary, and I therefore make the bracket 8 to carry it, as shown inFig. V.

Holes 9 are formed in the brackets 1 and 8, which serve to support side rods 10 when necessary. l

I claim as my inventionl. A curtain-bracket comprising the channel-piece having the sides 2 connected at one edge by the plate forming the bottom of the channel leaving the other edges of the sides free, and the right-angular attaching-clip at the end of channel and extending from the bottom plate, substantially as described.

2. A bracket comprising a channel-piece having perforations extending through its sides laterally, and the right-angular attaching-clip at the end, said clip having the hole 9 therein, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN JONES. IVitnesses:

ROBERT A. SLoAN, J. E. LLOYD BARNEs. 

